Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers · South Dakota

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen

Aberdeen, SD · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen runs at 572% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen: 12.6 TCR = 572% of Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen safety composite

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen held a steady TCR band

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen's TCR held near 0.2 from 14.3 in 2021 to 14.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.3 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=13.5 · 2024=14.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 572% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO OH-SPRIN01-Springfie…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OH-SPRIN01-Springfield - OH - Warehouse (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen averages 12.6 TCR (572% of the Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen TCR series: 2021=14.3 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=13.5 · 2024=14.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen falls in its industry

134 Packaged Frozen Food Merchant establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen (40 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen
Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen (40 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen has fewer employees than the Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesaler median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 14.4 9.6 6 0 0
2023 13.5 8.1 5 0 0
2022 8.2 2.7 3 0 0
2021 14.3 11.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · SD · Aberdeen

134 Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR OH-SPRIN01-Springfield - OH - Warehouse 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-East LA Warehouse 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Meats LLC 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA-IMPER01-Imperial - PA - Warehouse 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pollock, SD 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCI - Sioux Falls Division 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE SONIFI Health, Inc. Sioux Falls Office 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Border States Electric - Sioux Falls 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Helia Healthcare of Olney 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cvg Ro 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadway Bakery - 5508 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CSL Wimberley 2018, LLC 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Entertainment Technology 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covington 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ft Collins 10705 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga 10407 40 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.